Obama's Energy Meltdown

From Politico.

"Despite the president’s endless number of appearances at new energy technology facilities, constant references to creating “green jobs,” countless hours being photographed behind the wheels of battery-powered and other “new age” vehicles and a somewhat shameless effort to argue that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill should be used to justify passage of his energy agenda, we are further from passing a comprehensive energy bill in the U.S. Senate today than at any time in the Obama presidency.

It is hard to remember an issue on which a president armed with the kind of congressional majority Obama enjoys, has been handed such a stunning defeat on what was considered a cornerstone issue of his domestic agenda. While various presidential observers opine about the president’s various leadership strengths and weaknesses, there seems to be a lack of appreciation of the significance of what this setback on energy really means."

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"Ultimately, Senate Democrats proved themselves to be old school politicians, so when it came to a choice of self-preservation or pleasing their president, they picked themselves. That so many had swallowed their electoral concerns to pass Obamacare certainly contributed to these decisions on energy and cap and trade. However, the fact that the president was allowed to carry the ball on energy to the bitter end before his party repudiated him without providing a more graceful exit strategy, makes this one of the ugliest rejections a president has faced at the hands of his own party in recent memory."

Too many of us are non-believers when it comes to the concept of Utopia.